License office weeks from reopening
Vehicle registration in Sequim
must await agent certification
again be able to take care of auto
and boat licensing in Sequim by
around Halloween or Election
SEQUIM â&#x20AC;&#x201D; East Clallam
Day.
County and Gardiner-area residents still will need to drive into Replacement announced
Port Angeles or Port Townsend to
Suzan
Mansfield
was
register their vehicles for an
another two months while a new announced in August as the
licensing agent is trained and replacement for agent Karen
Shewbert, whose contract with
completes paperwork.
But Clallam County Auditor the county was ended in May.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are excited that this
Patty Rosand said residents will
BY ARWYN RICE

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

appointment
has
been
approved by
the director of
[the
state
Department of
Licensing],
and that we
are one step
further
in
restoring ser- Mansfield
vice to Sequim
customers,â&#x20AC;? Rosand said.
The Sequim Licensing Office
will be located in a wheelchairaccessible building in the mall
anchored by J.C. Penney Co. Inc.
at 645 W. Washington St.
Mansfield and an employee

must complete a certification process with the state Department of
Licensing before the new subagency can open.
The certification course takes
as long as 10 weeks.
Mansfield formerly operated
the subagency in Sequim, Rosand
said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She did an excellent job serving the citizens of Sequim in the
past, and I am sure she will in the
future,â&#x20AC;? the auditor said.

Old contract terminated

office down in May.
Shewbert appealed the termination to the Department of
Licensing, which formed a dispute
review board that heard testimony during a two-day hearing in
Port Angeles in June.
The board upheld the termination over what Rosand said were
constant disagreements regarding
Shewbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accounting practices,
including her refusal to use
accounting software compatible
with what the Auditorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office
uses.

________
Shewbert operated the Sequim
Vehicle/Vessel Licensing Office for
Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at
12 years before Rosand termi- 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arwyn.
nated her contract and shut the rice@peninsuladailynews.com.

PORT TOWNSEND â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
The three-day Wooden Boat
Festival that starts Friday is
a unique attraction where
attendees can celebrate the
maritime trades, organizers
said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wonderful community gathering,â&#x20AC;? said Jake
Beattie, executive director of
the Northwest Maritime
Center, which is home to the
Wooden Boat Foundation
and the Wooden Boat Festival.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has an incredible electric energy,â&#x20AC;? Beattie said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When it is happening, the
whole town comes alive.â&#x20AC;?
Now in its 36th year, the
event draws boating enthusiasts from around the world
to the Point Hudson Marina
festival grounds to learn the
latest and greatest maritime
techniques or just to appreciate the lines of a particularly

compelling craft.
Although the festival
begins in earnest Friday, a
Music & Bar Harbor open to
the public will kick it off
Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to
10 p.m.
The festival will run from
9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Sunday.

Music in the big tent
Music begins at 11 a.m.
each day in the big tent next
to the Cupola House, and
festival attendees can dance
until midnight Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
General admission tickets
for nonmembers of the
Northwest Maritime Center
are $15 for a single day and
$30 for the entire festival.
Seniors, students and military pay $10 for one day or
$20 for all days.
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Port Townsend Maritime Center Executive Director Jake Beattie shows off the new Pilot House
Training Center, tours of which will be conducted during the three-day Wooden Boat Festival.

Paula Walters, a para-educator at Jefferson Elementary
School in Port Angeles, acts as a crossing guard on Lincoln
Street Tuesday as students return from summer vacation.

2010

PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
These three women intend to
dispel what they perceive as
downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad reputation.
Well, maybe not so bad â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
but boring, they say.
People think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little
to no fall-fashion shopping
downtown, said Janee Lyster,
owner of the Sassy Kat Salon
and Boutique.
So she and six other shops
are joining thousands of other
cities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from New York to
Moscow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for Fashionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night
Out, an annual celebration of
style and community.
Music and strutting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in
a free fashion show â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will

start the event at the Elks
Naval Lodge, 131 E. First St.,
at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Then Fashionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night Out
will fan out around downtown, with 20 businesses
open late with special promotions, appetizers, beverages
and sales.

Major sponsor
Sterling Bank is the
eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major sponsor.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to show people we could do it on our
own,â&#x20AC;? said Lyster, who did not
enlist help from the Port
Angeles Downtown Association to assemble participants.
Trisa Chomica, whose
Trisa & Co. design business
is upstairs from Sassy Kat,

told Lyster about Fashionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Night Out, the now international event begun in 2009 in
New York City by Vogue magazine and others.
So Lyster, Chomica and
Marilyn Lamb, owner of the
Cottage Queen boutique
downtown, decided to start
recruiting other downtown
merchants.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They went ahead and
planned it,â&#x20AC;? said Barbara
Frederick, executive director
of the Port Angeles Downtown Association.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great that
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderful when businesses take the initiative to
plan something.â&#x20AC;?

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By The Associated Press

ALAN M. KRIEGSMAN, 84, the longtime
dance critic for The Washington Post and the first
dance critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, died Friday at his
home in Washington.
The cause was heart disease, said his wife of 55
years, Sali Ann, a former
dance director of the
National Endowment of the
Arts.
Mr. Kriegsman’s career
at The Post, from 1966 to
1996, coincided with a
period of growth and diversification in American dance
and with important developments in Washington as a
center for dance, notably the
opening in 1971 of both the
Kennedy Center and the
Wolf Trap National Park for
the Performing Arts.
His own training had
been in science and musicology, both of which remained
lifelong interests. His passion for dance had been
ignited by a 1946 performance by the ballerina Alicia Markova.
Alan Mortimer Kriegsman, widely known as Mike,
was born in New York City
on Feb. 28, 1928. His father
was a lawyer, his mother an
executive secretary, and
from them and other relatives, he acquired a passion

3.1%
8.2%

Sometimes
for both music (he played
piano) and science.
He married the former
Sali Ann Ribakove in 1957.
She survives him, as does a
brother.
In 1966, they moved to
Washington, where he
joined The Post as a music
critic.
Soon, he expanded his
brief to cover other performing arts, writing as an occasional columnist on wider
cultural issues.
He became the paper’s
dance critic in 1974; he
received the Pulitzer Prize
for criticism in 1976.

_________
CHARLIE ROSE, 73, a
former U.S. representative
and a savvy political player
who used his seat on the
House Agriculture Committee to help tobacco farmers,
has died.
Stacye Hefner, the wife

of the former congressman,
said Tuesday that he died of
Parkinson’s disease at a
hospital near their northern
Alabama home.
She said Mr. Rose was
diagnosed with the degenerative brain disorder last
year.
Mr. Rose, a Democrat,
spent 24 years in Washington representing the 7th
Congressional District,
which included his hometown of Fayetteville.
The attorney and former
prosecutor became a powerful lawmaker in Congress
and used his Agriculture
Committee seat to back the
interests of farmers, especially tobacco growers back
home.
He also chaired the
House Administration Committee in the early 1990s.
Mr. Rose retired in 1996
and then worked as a lobbyist.

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Setting it Straight
Corrections and clarifications

■ Listings for KOMO-TV, channel 4, in TV Week magazine, distributed with Sunday’s editions, erroneously
read evening coverage of the Republican National Convention during this week.
The listings should read Democratic National Convention, as they do for other channels providing convention
coverage.
■ The Quinault tribe is based in Taholah. A news
brief Tuesday on Page A6 had the wrong town.

_________
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Peninsula Lookback
From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

1937 (75 years ago)

President Franklin D.
Roosevelt will visit the
Olympic Peninsula later
this month to view proposed Mount Olympus
National Park lands, it was
announced in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, pubSeen Around
lished by his son-in-law,
Peninsula snapshots
John Boettiger.
Roosevelt will combine
SEQUIM MOM,
the Peninsula visit with a
TEACHING her young
trip to the new Grand Couson bicycle safety, falling
lee Dam and a personal
off the bike and breaking
visit with his daughter,
her ankle . . .
Mrs. Boettiger, and his
WANTED! “Seen Around”
grandchildren. He will be
items. Send them to PDN News
accompanied by the first
Desk, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles lady, the P-I reported.
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“He will tour the Olymemail news@peninsuladailynews.
pic Peninsula to study percom.

sonally the territory which
would become Mount
Olympus National Park
under the [Rep. Mon C.]
Wallgren bill,” the P-I said.
“The president is deeply
interested in this proposal
as well as in the development of all the national
parks in the West, which
are attracting new visitors
each year.”
[The presidential party
reached the Peninsula on
Sept. 30, 1937, arriving in
Port Angeles following a
visit to Victoria.]

1962 (50 years ago)
The Hood Canal Bridge
received a clean bill of
health from a consulting

engineering firm after a
year of operation, the state
Toll Bridge Authority
reported. The TBA said the
inspection showed that the
bridge satisfactorily withstood all weather conditions last winter.

1987 (25 years ago)
A spokesman for James
River Corp., owner of the
pulp and paper mill in
Port Angeles and operator
of Glines Canyon Dam on
the Elwha River, said a
painted crack on the dam
face as well as a slogan by
the environmental group
Earth First will be sandblasted off.

The dam and companion
Elwha Dam provide about
35 percent to 40 percent of
the electricity for the Port
Angeles mill.
James River has been
working on getting the
dams relicensed by the
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.

Laugh Lines
According to The New
York Times, Iraq now loves
American fast food.
They hate us, but they
love our fast food.
This is how we work.
We force democracy on
them, and then we sneak
in morbid obesity.
David Letterman

Looking Back
From the files of The Associated Press

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY,
Sept. 5, the 249th day of 2012.
There are 117 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
■ On Sept. 5, 1972, terrorism
struck the Munich Olympics as
members of the Palestinian group
Black September attacked the
Israeli delegation; 11 Israelis, five
guerrillas and a police officer were
killed in the resulting siege.
On this date:
■ In 1774, the first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.
■ In 1793, the Reign of
Terror began during the French
Revolution as the National
Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counter-revolu-

tionary activities.
■ In 1939, four days after war
had broken out in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued
a proclamation declaring U.S. neutrality in the conflict.
■ In 1945, Japanese-American
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, suspected of
being wartime broadcaster “Tokyo
Rose,” was arrested in Yokohama.
D’Aquino was later convicted of
treason and served six years in
prison; she was pardoned in 1977
by President Gerald R. Ford.
■ In 1957, the novel On the
Road, by Jack Kerouac, was first
published by Viking Press.
■ In 1961, President
John F. Kennedy signed
legislation making aircraft

hijackings a federal crime.
■ In 1975, President Gerald R.
Ford escaped an attempt on his
life by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme,
a disciple of Charles Manson, in
Sacramento, Calif.
■ In 1986, four hijackers who
had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet on
the ground in Karachi, Pakistan,
opened fire when the lights inside
the plane failed; a total of 22 people were killed in the hijacking.
■ In 1997, Britain’s Queen
Elizabeth II broke the royal reticence over Princess Diana’s death,
delivering a televised address in
which she called her former
daughter-in-law “a remarkable
person.”
■ Ten years ago: Afghan

President Hamid Karzai survived
an assassination attempt in Kandahar, hours after an explosivespacked car tore through a Kabul
market.
■ Five years ago: Fred
Thompson announced on “The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno” that
he was running for the Republican
presidential nomination; his candidacy lasted less than five months.
■ One year ago: President
Barack Obama used a boisterous
Labor Day rally in Detroit to put
congressional Republicans on the
spot, challenging them to place the
country’s interests above all else
and vote to create jobs and put the
economy back on a path toward
growth.

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS for Wednesday, September 5, 2012
PAGE

A3
Briefly: Nation
Pentagon says
ex-SEAL’s book
spills secrets
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon official said a former Navy
SEAL’s insider account of the
raid that killed Osama bin
Laden contains classified information.
Pentagon press secretary
George Little told reporters
Tuesday that an official review
of the book, No Easy Day, determined that it reveals what he
called “sensitive and classified”
information.
He was not more specific but
said the book should have been
submitted to the Pentagon
before publication for a formal
review of potential disclosures
of such information.
A lawyer for the author, Matt
Bissonnette, has disputed that
he was legally obliged to have
the book screened before publication.
Little would not say what
damage may result from the
book’s revelations.
Little said the Pentagon has
not taken steps to stop the book
from being sold on military
installations.

Romney top cash-raiser
WASHINGTON — The Associated Press has learned that
Mitt Romney’s presidential
campaign has raised at least
$100 million in August for the
third consecutive month.
The early numbers, which
include money raised by the

national
Republican
Party, will be
publicly
released next
week.
They were
described by
two people
familiar with
Romney
the figures
who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to share internal
campaign matters.
The disclosure comes as
Romney and the GOP have outraised President Barack
Obama’s reelection effort in
May, June and July, including
money collected by the Democratic Party.
Obama’s advisers have publicly acknowledged the president will likely be outspent.

Surfer bitten by shark
MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla.
— A surfer along Florida’s coast
is recovering after he was bitten
on the hand by a shark.
The 32-year-old told authorities he was paddling out at Melbourne Beach along the Atlantic
Coast when he put his hand in
the water and felt a bite.
His hand was treated by
paramedics at the beach, and he
didn’t need to be taken to a hospital.
University of Florida shark
expert George Burgess said the
United States has had 30
unprovoked shark attacks, with
half of them in Florida.
The surfer was not identified.
The Associated Press

Briefly: World
ital, Baghdad.
Army Brig. Gen. Hamid
Mohammed said the Tuesday
afternoon blast hit their car as
they headed to their unit near
Tuz Khormato, a city 130 miles
north of Baghdad.
GENEVA — More than
Mohammed said security
100,000 Syrians sought refugee
forces
sealed off the area and
status during August in what
started
a search operation to
the United Nations describes as
find
the
attackers.
an eye-popping escalation in the
Violence
has ebbed in Iraq
pace of departures since the
since
the
height
of the sectarian
hostilities began.
The August total accounts for fighting from 2005 to 2007, but
extremists frequently attack
more than 40 percent of the
234,368 Syrian refugees who, as security forces in an attempt to
undermine the Shiite-led govof the last count Sept. 2, had
ernment in Baghdad.
fled for surrounding countries
since the uprising began 17
Dutch stoner vote
months ago, the U.N. refugee
agency said Tuesday.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
“It’s quite an astonishing
— With slogans like “Don’t let
number,” the agency’s chief
your vote go up in smoke,” ownspokeswoman, Melissa Fleming, ers of the cafes where bags of
told reporters in Geneva. “And it hashish are sold alongside cups
points to a significant escalation of coffee are mounting a get-outin refugee movement and people the-stoner-vote campaign ahead
seeking asylum.”
of next week’s Dutch election.
The tide fleeing the civil war
The campaigners are calling
underscores the intensifying
on their sometimes apathetic
violence between President
dope-smoking clientele to get
Bashar Assad’s regime and the
out and support political parties
armed anti-government groups. that oppose the recently introBut even August’s figure,
duced “weed pass” that is
which is the highest monthly
intended to rein in the cafes
total so far, only counts refugees known as coffee shops and close
who are registered and those
them to foreign tourists.
awaiting registration. Officials
Under the new system, coffee
acknowledge the real number of shops become member-only
Syrian refugees is likely way
clubs, and only Dutch residents
above 200,000.
can apply for a pass to get in.
The cafes are limited to a maxi4 Iraqi soldiers killed
mum of 2,000 members.
The online vote2smoke.nl
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials
campaign offers cannabis and
say a roadside bomb explosion
marijuana users voting advice.
has killed four off-duty soldiers
near a city northeast of the capThe Associated Press

U.N.: 100,000
refugees fled
Syria in August

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (2)

Washington state delegate Sharon Winesberry from Steilacoom sits next to her Teddy
bear at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday.

Democrats convene,
hear first lady speak
folk, Va., predicted he’d get “all
misty” watching his wife’s speech
from the White House with their
two daughters.
The three-day convention has
drawn thousands of delegates to a
state Obama narrowly carried in
2008. And although he no longer
is the fresh-faced newbie who leveraged a short Senate career into
an audacious run for the nation’s
highest office, Obama still can
excite partisans, and Democrats
were counting on massive numbers to pack an outdoor stadium
for his speech later in the week
— weather permitting.

Michelle Obama
pitches husband
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democrats opened their national convention Tuesday offering President Barack Obama as America’s
best chance to revive the ragged
U.S. economy and asking voters to
be patient with incomplete results
so far.
First lady Michelle Obama, in
her opening-night speech, aimed
to give people a very personal
reminder of “the man that he was
before he was president.”
“The truth is that he has grown
so much, but in terms of his core
character and value, that has not
been changed at all,” she said.
“I am going to take folks back
to the man he was before he was
president.”
Polls show the first lady is
more popular than her husband.
With the economy struggling,
Robert Gibbs, a campaign surrogate and former White House
press secretary, said Mrs. Obama
“can really tell the story of his
[the president’s] values, his

Michelle Obama waves to
supporters in Charlotte, N.C.
upbringing, what he believes and
what he wants to do yet for this
country.”
Delegates bestow their nomination on Obama and Vice President Joe Biden tonight, the same
night that former President Bill
Clinton delivers a prime-time
speech aimed at voters disappointed with the results of the
past four years yet undecided how
to cast their ballots.
Obama, campaigning in Nor-

Revving up enthusiasm
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner
and a host of Democratic allies
worked to rev up delegate enthusiasm, saying Barack Obama has
a strong record to defend.
They noted the president had
helped the economy rebound, presided over an increase in the stock
market and brought troops home
from Iraq and Afghanistan.
“We’ve got some truth-telling
to do,” Warner told Florida delegates at a breakfast meeting.
“America is better off today
than it was four years ago.”

Social Security’s bullet order
fires up conspiracy theorists
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — It didn’t
take long for the Internet to start
buzzing with conspiracy theories
after the Social Security Administration posted a notice that it was
purchasing 174,000 hollow-point
bullets.
Why is the agency that provides benefits to retirees, disabled
workers, widows and children
stockpiling ammunition? Whom
are they going to use it on?
“It’s not outlandish to suggest
that the Social Security Administration is purchasing the bullets
as part of preparations for civil
unrest,” Infowars.com said.
Another website, The Daily

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Caller, said the bullets must be for
use against American citizens,
“since the SSA has never been
used overseas to help foreign
countries maintain control of
their citizens.”
The clamor became such a distraction the agency dedicated a
website to explain the purchase.

Office of inspector general
The bullets are for Social Security’s office of inspector general,
which has about 295 agents who
investigate Social Security fraud
and other crimes, said Jonathan
L. Lasher, the agency’s assistant
IG for external relations.
The agents carry guns and

make arrests — 589 last year,
Lasher said. They execute search
warrants and respond to threats
against Social Security offices,
employees and customers.
Agents carry .357 caliber pistols, Lasher said.
The bullets, which add up to
about 590 per agent, are for the
upcoming fiscal year. Most will be
expended on the firing range.
Some bloggers have asked why
agents need hollow-point bullets,
known for causing more tissue
damage than other bullets when
they hit a person because they
expand when they enter the body.
The bullets, however, are standard issue for many law enforcement agencies, Lasher said.

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wildfire could burn all week

Nation: Judge orders
a sex change for convict

Nation: Apple hinting
at reveal of new iPhone 5

World: Suicide bomber
kills 25 in Afghan village

IT COULD BE a week before firefighters can contain a 3,600-acre blaze
in the Angeles National Forest because
of high temperatures and rugged terrain in thick brush that hasn’t burned in
a couple of decades.
The cause of the fire that started
Sunday afternoon in the San Gabriel
Mountains, spoiling holiday hiking and
camping plans for thousands, has not
been determined, the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
A burned car was found in the area,
but it isn’t clear if it started the fire or
was just destroyed by the flames, officials said.

A FEDERAL JUDGE Tuesday
ordered state prison officials to provide
a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment
surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled
in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who
was born as a man but has received
hormone treatments and lives as a
woman in an all-male prison. Robert
Kosilek was convicted of murder in the
killing of his wife in 1990.
Kosilek sued in 2005, arguing that
the surgery is a medical necessity.
In his ruling, Wolf found that surgery
is the “only adequate treatment” for
Kosilek’s “serious medical need.”

APPLE INC. ON Tuesday invited
reporters to a news conference next
week in San Francisco with a message
that suggests that it will reveal the
iPhone 5, as expected.
The email invitation shows a big
“12,” for Sept. 12, casting a shadow in
the shape of a “5.”
Unconfirmed reports have pointed
to Sept. 12 as being the day Apple
shows off the new phone, expected to
go on sale a week or two later.
The next iPhone is expected to
have a taller screen.
Other reports said Apple will reveal
a smaller version of the iPad, taking on
competitors like Amazon’s Kindle Fire.

A SUICIDE BOMBER killed at least
25 civilians and wounded 30 at a funeral
for a village elder in a remote part of
eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
Ahmad Zia Abdul Zai, a spokesman
for the provincial governor, said the
attack took place Tuesday in the village
of Shagai in the Durbaba district of
eastern Nangarhar province. He and
other officials said at least 25 people
were killed.
Initial reports had at least 10 civilians killed. Zai and police later said
more than a dozen people died of their
injuries.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility

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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Festival: Boat race
CONTINUED FROM A1 boat shop, with a more detailed
presentation taking place at
Tickets can be purchased 2 p.m.
Aside from becoming a classonline at www.woodenboat.org/
festival or at the main gate at the room for local students, the room
Northwest Maritime Center also will run exercises to prepare
response to oil spills.
beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can add other ships and
Tickets provide access to all
festival boats, all daytime presen- lower the light to practice night
tations and demonstrations, navigation,â&#x20AC;? Beattie said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The constellations are renexhibitors, music performances,
childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities and food ven- dered so you can teach celestial
navigation from the computer
dors.
Proceeds support the Wooden screens.
Boat Foundation.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;For commercial mariners, all
this is obvious, but for recreHundreds of boats
ational mariners, this will be an
incredible teaching tool.â&#x20AC;?
Barb Trailer, who with Carrie
Plans for the Pilot House,
Andrews took over directing the
which was converted from a prefestival from Kaci Cronkhite this
viously empty observation room,
year, said that by Friday, 230
began about a year ago.
boats had signed up to participate
Beattie said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know
and are expected to dock at the
exactly
how much the facility cost,
Point Hudson Marina later this
as
it
had
several funding sources
week.
that
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
be accurately counted.
Trailer was less certain about
Much
of
the support came from
the number of expected attendees,
estimating that it could get as grants, and there was a $300,000
high as 36,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though she said software donation, he said.
there was no way to get an accuBoat races
rate count.
Along with the boats, technical
Boat races are set Friday, Satpresentations about boating inno- urday and Sunday.
vations are scheduled from
The 26 & Under Sail Race â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Friday and open to all wooden boats 26 feet
Saturday and from 9:30 a.m. to long or less â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is from 2:30 p.m. to
2:15 p.m. Sunday.
4 p.m. Friday in Port Townsend
About 100 food and craft ven- Bay.
dors will be on site.
In the NW Schooner Cup,
The draw of boats is magical scheduled from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
and not easily explained, Trailer Saturday, schooners race around
said.
buoys and return to the marina.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;People who love the water
The Rowing Regatta will be
want to go out on the water, and from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday in
they are quite passionate about Port Townsend Bay.
it,â&#x20AC;? she said.
The inaugural T-37 Model Boat
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have different reasons.
Races will be at 10 a.m. Sunday in
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m drawn to the traveling the harbor.
aspect.â&#x20AC;?
Up to 300 boats are expected to
participate in the Festival Sail-by
Pilot House
on Sunday.
The festival always has
included an educational aspect, Grand parade
which is kicked into a higher level
The boats will begin to leave
with the new Pilot House TrainPort Hudson at 3 p.m. for the
ing Center, which overlooks Point
Hudson from the third floor of the grand parade circling Port
Chandler Maritime Education Townsend Bay, which will be in
full swing by 3:30 p.m.
Building.
While there are several careWhen in its inert form, the
room offers a wide view of the bay fully choreographed events, it is
with nautical data displayed on the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spontaneity that
makes it special, Beattie said.
the monitors.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a lot of wild energy
When activated, three large
screens rise like a scene out of a here which you can infuse with
James Bond movie, creating a your own energy,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of unplanned
180-degree simulation of a variety
of 35 different vessels from a sail- moments of greatness and things
boat to a container ship as well as that happen on the spur of the
recreating any possible weather moment.â&#x20AC;?
For more information, visit
condition.
When it kicks into storm mode, www.woodenboat.org.
________
anyone in the room might get a
little queasy.
Jefferson County Reporter Charlie BerTours of the Pilot House will be mant can be reached at 360-385-2335 or
conducted during the festival at charlie.bermant@peninsuladailynews.
every half-hour leaving from the com.

SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No one was
injured when a plane piloted by the
Republican candidate for Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9th Congressional District
made a crash landing at the Spanaway Airport.
Jim Postma and his wife, Fran,
were the only two aboard the twinengine plane when it skidded down
the runway on its belly Monday.
The 78-year-old retired Air
Force captain told KOMO-TV that

the plane made the hard landing
on his second attempt to touch
down. He said he aborted the first
attempt and raised the landing
gear but forgot to lower it when he
tried the second time.
Pierce County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office
spokesman Ed Troyer said Postma
and his wife were able to climb out
of the plane, which burned.
Postma is running against
Democratic Rep. Adam Smith in
the general election.

THE (EVERETT) HERALD

Bill Lindsay wades through the waves to measure the water temperature at Marina
Beach in Edmonds â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a task heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done regularly since 1994.

EDMONDS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick,
determined gait stood out at the
Edmonds waterfront as he
marched past the scattered beach
chairs and strolling families licking
ice-cream cones.
Meet Bill Lindsay.
As always in the summer, he
was barefoot and wearing only
jean shorts. He had long whiteand-gray hair and a walrus mustache.
He walked to the jetty off
Edmonds and dropped a thermometer in the water for exactly 15
seconds.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, Bill, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the temperature today?â&#x20AC;? a passer-by asked.
It was 59.9 degrees in that spot,
the first of 12 where Lindsay would
stop on his daily 2.5-mile walk
along the beach.
Then heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go back to his car
parked outside a nearby restaurant and record the water temperature numbers in a diary, along
with notes about what he saw and
who he talked to.
Lindsay, 63, of Lynnwood has
been a frequent sight at the
Edmonds waterfront since 1994.
Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reached a kind of celebrity
status under the nickname
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Edmonds Beach Water Temperature-Taker Dude.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My daily routineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I work this beach. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my daily
routine. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a summer vacation
every day,â&#x20AC;? he said.
He started driving to Edmonds
and visiting the beach because he
liked the walk, later deciding to
measure the water temperature
because it was something heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d
always been interested in.
Bad weather is no obstacle to
Lindsay, but in winter, he wears
long jeans and a T-shirt.
After stopping at the Edmonds
jetty on a recent sweltering afternoon, Lindsay hit a couple more
spots south of the ferry dock and
walked on to the fishing pier to

Power of the people
Regulars said hello and asked
Lindsay about the weather. Others
came up to him to find out what he
was doing.
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lindsayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest reward.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like people,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes I spend half an hour talking
to someone.â&#x20AC;?
People like Lindsay, too.
A friend of a friend started a
Facebook fan page for him. As of
Monday afternoon, it had 6,409
likes.
In comparison, the Everett
newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page had
3,419 likes, and the Snohomish
County PUD had 4,598.
People post photos and stories
about their encounters with the
Edmonds Beach Water Temperature-Taker Dude.
Lindsay doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t log in to or
update the page, but he knows
about it and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind the noteworthiness.
In a way, he is out there measuring the temperature for the
benefit of other people.
Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a science to it that Lindsay wants people to be aware of.
The water temperature varies
by several degrees depending on

Lindsay fell in love with water
during the summers he spent on
the shore in New Jersey. He came
to the Puget Sound area in 1973,
when he was an officer in the U.S.
Navy stationed in Bremerton.
He has a degree in mechanical
engineering and works as a technical manual writer for Boeing.
Most weekdays he arrives in
Edmonds between 3 p.m. and 3:30
p.m. He changes into his shorts â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
no, he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wear them to his job
at Boeing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and leaves his shoes
in the car.
He loves numbers and has
developed a system for remembering them. Each number makes him
think of something, and he loves
looking for patterns.

Happy to share
Lindsay is happy to share his
knowledge about the weather and
hopes people find it useful.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been useful for him: Yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
worth of monitoring temperature
and wind patterns helps him predict what plants will do well in a
particular season.
Thanks to that, he is able to
grow just about anything in containers at his rooftop garden,
including kiwis, figs, corn and peas.
He even planted coffee beans
and grew enough for a cup of coffee
one year.
But most of all, Lindsay hopes
people see him and remember to
notice and enjoy small things in
life.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life is kind of like picking cherries from a tree,â&#x20AC;? he said.
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(C) — WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Fashion: Model
CONTINUED FROM A1

New Grant Street
Elementary School
Principal Mary
Sepler, from left,
welcomes thirdgraders Jaycee Zack,
Grace Taracka,
Hunter Alley and
Raiden Kasperson
during their first
day of school in Port
Townsend.
CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Lyster’s Sassy Kat, along
with six other shops — Jewells Boutique, Necessities &
Temptations,
Cottage
Queen, Black Diamond
Bridal, Maurices and Iron
Apparel, all neighbors in
the downtown — will showcase scores of outfits in the
Elks show.
Lyster has hired a music
provider who goes by DJ
Dave to keep the models
moving up the runway.
And while admission
will be free, patrons may
want to bring something for
a beverage from the Elks’
bar, she added.
Doors will be open at 5
p.m., and “people can come
in any time” during the
hourlong fashion show, Lyster said.
The models include men,
standards in math
women and children, she
Eighth-graders strug- said, and they range in age
gled in science, with only from 23 months to 72 years
39.4 percent meeting stan- old.
dards.
Part of the problem is Former runway model
that at the middle school
Chomica’s
mother,
level, students don’t apply
Nancy
Hefely,
a
former
runthemselves for state exams,
said Ann Renker, principal way model in Seattle, will
of the Neah Bay middle and be among those sashaying
forward.
high schools.
“She can really do it,”
In 2010 and 2011 surveys, 63 percent and 47 per- said Chomica, demonstratcent of students, respec- ing by turning on her heel
tively, admitted on a survey and lifting a haughty chin.
All evening, Lyster and
that they did not do their
the Fashion’s Night Out
best, Renker said.
“Students don’t just go crew will sell tickets to a
from 22 percent in math to drawing for a $600 outfit
turn into 75 percent pass- created by the seven shops
and another downtown
ing algebra,” she said.
At the high schools, 64.6 business, Skin Care Suites
percent passed algebra, Spa.
Proceeds from the $1
76.3 percent passed geometickets
will benefit Healthy
try, 56.8 passed biology, and
93.3 percent passed the Families of Clallam County.
Tickets will be on sale at
writing exam.
the Elks and, for the rest of
the evening, at the particiCrescent School
pating shops and restauCrescent
students rants downtown.
The eight merchants
exceeded state averages in
six subjects, scored exactly who contributed to the $600
at average in one and below dress package plus 12 othstate averages in 12 catego- ers will be open late, some
until 8 p.m. and some until
ries.
High school students 9 p.m.
enjoyed a rate higher than
state averages, where they
passed the reading testing
at a rate of 90.0 percent,
writing at 95.5 percent,
algebra at 74.5 percent and
biology at 77.3 percent.
And 69 percent passed
the geometry exam.
Elementary and middle THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
school students struggled in
SEATTLE — Seattle
math, with only 27.3 percent of seventh- and eighth- police said the shooting
graders meeting standards, death of a 42-year-old man
and 22.7 percent in the fifth in the Maple Leaf neighborhood may have been directly
grade.
The district is imple- related to a road rage-type of
menting small-group and traffic incident.
KING-TV reported that
individual student interventions, Crescent School police officers found a man
District Superintendent sitting in the driver’s seat of
his maroon Subaru, which
Clayton Mork said.
Small districts have both was stopped in the street.
an advantage and a chal- The man had been shot multiple times and later died at
lenge, he said.
Fewer students and Harborview Medical Center.
Police believe someone
small class sizes mean that
each struggling student can pulled up to the victim’s car
be identified for assistance, and, for reasons that may
but a lack of having the have been related to a road
“economy of size” to provide rage incident, fired multiple
resources for implementa- rounds into his vehicle.
tion makes it more difficult,
Police are searching for a
Mork said.
silver BMW convertible.

Students at Clallam
County’s two largest school
districts performed above
state averages in most subjects and grade levels.
But the three smaller
districts’ students struggled
in the 2011-2012 school
year, according to a report
issued by the state Office of
the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Statewide, test scores
improved even as standards
have become more challenging.
“Students are continuing
to make progress. Science
and math scores are up in
almost every grade,” state
Superintendent
Randy
Dorn said.
Dorn cited a 10.4 percent
jump in fifth-grade science
scores, from 55.7 percent of
students passing in 2011 to
66.1 percent in 2012, as
well as a 4.7 percent jump
in eighth-grade scores, from
61.6 percent in 2011 to 66.3
percent in 2012.
“This is the second year
students have been tested
on the new science standards, and what we’re seeing is that students are
learning the new standards,” Dorn said.
In June, students in the
third through eighth grades
took the Measurements of
Student Progress exams in
math and reading, fourthand seventh-grade students’ writing abilities were
measured, and fifth- and
eighth-grade students were
tested in science.
End-of-course exams are
a new state high school
graduation requirement.
Students in the classes
of 2013 and 2014 must pass
exams in reading, writing
and algebra.
Beginning with the class
of 2015, students must pass
those, plus geometry and
biology, to graduate.
Detailed reports for each
district are available at the
OSPI website, http://
reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us.

Port Angeles
Port Angeles School District scores were the strongest in the county, with students “meeting or exceeding

standards” at rates above
state averages in all but one
of 21 subject and gradelevel categories.
Students exceeded state
averages by more than 10
percent in six categories
and by more than 5 percent
in nine additional categories, and in many categories, students showed
improvement over the 2011
exams.
“We’re especially pleased
at the district level that all
students,
elementary
through high school, scored
at or above the state average in every content area,
even as some state scores
dropped or stayed the
same,”
Superintendent
Jane Pryne said.
Students in the fifth and
eighth grades met science
standards at a rate more
than 10 points higher than
the state’s average, while
third- and sixth-grade students achieved the same in
reading.
Only 61.6 percent of
fifth-graders met math
standards but improved on
their fourth-grade passing
rate of 56.9 percent.
Also above state averages, 72.8 percent of biology
students passed the end-ofcourse exam, 78.3 percent
of students passed the algebra exam, and 86.2 percent
passed the geometry exam.

Sequim
Students in the Sequim
School District met standards in 14 of 21 categories,
exceeding the state average
by more than 10 percent in
three categories and by
more than 5 percent in an
additional five categories.
Fifth-grade Sequim students excelled in the reading and science exams,
meeting or exceeding standards by more than 10 percent above state averages.
The fifth-graders also
exceeded state writing averages.
In six categories, students improved their passing rates over 2011’s, with
significant improvements
in fifth- and eighth-grade
math and reading scores.
In reading, Sequim fifthgrade students met standards at a rate of 81.8 per-

cent, and in science 80.5
percent.
Sixth-graders struggled
in math, as 50 percent met
the standards and 11.4 percent fell below the state
average.
End-of-course
exam
passing rates were 76.1 percent for algebra, 89.9 percent for geometry, 58.6 in
biology, 80.2 in reading and
80.9 in writing.

Quillayute Valley
In all but one subject,
Quillayute Valley School
District students fell below
state averages — but
showed improvement over
2011 scores.
Fifth-grade students
improved from 57.1 percent
meeting standards in reading and 43.5 percent in
math as fourth-graders, to
70.9 in reading and 64.8
percent in math — a 21.3point improvement that
brought them above the
state average.
Fifth- and eighth-grade
students scored 1 percentage point below the state
average for science, with
65.5 percent of fifth-graders
and 65.2 percent of eighthgrade students meeting
state standards.
More Forks High School
students passed end-ofcourse math exams, from
48.6 percent passing the
algebra exam in 2011 to
50.3 percent passing in
2012, and with geometry
students improving from
61.8 percent passing in
2011 to 64.9 percent passing in 2012.
In the first year of the
biology exam, 39.1 percent
of students passed.

Cape Flattery
Cape Flattery high
school students exceeded
state averages in four categories and had scores similar to state standards in
five categories but fell more
than 5 percent below state
averages in 12 categories.
The district’s students
had significantly low rates
of achievement in three categories.
Only 31.3 percent of
sixth-grade
students
and 27.3 percent of
eighth-graders met state

Justice for Victims of

A5

On First Street between
Lincoln and Oak streets,
they are the Port Angeles
Antique Mall, the Oven
Spoonful cafe, the Next
Door
Gastropub,
the
Twisted boutique, Michael’s
Seafood & Steakhouse,
Northwest Fudge & Confections, Fiddleheads and Rissa’s Consignment Shop.
Also participating are
Wine on the Waterfront and
Smuggler’s Landing, both
in The Landing mall at 115
E. Railroad Ave.; the Cabled
Fiber Studio at 106 N. Laurel St.; and Cafe New Day,
which will open Thursday
evening just this once.
That’s at least until this
fall, when the breakfastand-lunch spot will open for
dinner Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays.
Cafe New Day, 102 W.
Front St., will lay out goodies to sample, perhaps to
include pizzas and hot
sandwiches, said John
Hammond, who owns the
eatery with his wife, Kelli.
Chomica, ever the promoter of a vibrant downtown, urges local residents
to seize this day — and
evening — to see the free
show, shop, nosh and show
off their own sense of style.

‘Strut your stuff’
Fashion’s Night Out is “a
chance to dress up and strut
your stuff,” she said, adding
that this is also an opportunity to sport a little something outrageous.
“It’s the night to go for
it,” Chomica said.
“We want to make it
even bigger next year,” Lyster added.
“Our whole goal is to
support local businesses
and show that we have a lot
to offer.”
For information about
the event, phone Lyster at
Sassy Kat at 360-417-0800.

________
Features Editor Diane Urbani
de la Paz can be reached at 360452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.
urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.

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dents ineligible for financial
aid would cost about $7 million by the 2011-2013 budget
cycle.
State analysts assumed
the change in eligibility
would add more than 1,000
students statewide in any
given year.
But Rachelle Sharpe,
director of financial aid at
the Washington Student
Achievement Council, said
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really not known how
many students who are illegal immigrants are in the
state, much less if they would
apply for college.
Those estimates, she said,
were given to provide lawmakers an idea of increment.
Should the bill pass, the
added students likely would
be absorbed into the already
growing demand for state
financial aid.
Even if eligibility is
expanded to these students,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not guaranteed they
would receive aid.
Only 2 percent of all students who receive state
grants only get state money,
she said.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; With the
federal government giving
young illegal immigrants
brought to the U.S. as children a chance to stay in the
country, advocates in Washington state are relaunching
efforts to open state financial
aid to college students who
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have documents.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now these kids can live
and work here without fear
of deportation,â&#x20AC;? said Ricardo
Sanchez, chairman of the
Latino/a
Educational
Achievement Project, the
main group behind the effort.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The financial aid makes
more sense.â&#x20AC;?
But Sanchez faces an
uphill battle in Olympia.
The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial aid
pot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the needs grant program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is already strained
after years of economic woes
and rising tuition costs.
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more students who qualify From left, Maricela Velasquez and Sulema Martinez, assistants with the Immigration Law Offices
arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t getting aid because of Garcia, Ramirez and Pina, help Jose Padilla, 20, of Edinburg, Texas, fill out his paperwork for
demand keeps growing.
work program status in McAllen, Texas.

Uphill battle
More so, state financial
aid is often tied with federal
aid, something that students
who qualify under the program canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t apply for.
Add the reluctance by
lawmakers, including conservatives ones, and opposition
from some constituents to
give financial aid to students
who entered the country
without proper documentation.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The state is in the hole
by significant amounts of
money,â&#x20AC;? said Bob West, chair-

man of Grassroots of Yakima
Valley, a tea party group that
started as an organization to
lobby for strict immigration
enforcement in Olympia.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna give significant resources to people who
I think were given illegally a
legal status.â&#x20AC;?
West, who three years ago
testified against a similar
bill, said expanding the eligibility would act as further
encouragement for immigrants to come to the country
away from official channels.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realize that families

come here and come here
with small children, who are
obviously not making the
choice,â&#x20AC;? said Craig Fisher,
another member of Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
group.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They come here to have a
better life, if they come here
for that and if the children . .
. are benefited, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another
incentive for the parents. I
think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better if we
approach it for the standpoint of legal immigration.â&#x20AC;?
In June, President Barack
Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration
announced that young illegal

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immigrants brought to the
United States as children are
able to apply for two-year
permissions to stay in the
country if they meet certain
requirements.
The Obama administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals could
expand the rights of more
than 1 million young illegal
immigrants nationwide.
They are able to apply for
work permits as well, though
they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t obtain legal residency here or a path to citizenship.
Under the rules, people
who qualify for the program
also can be current students.
Dovetailing with the new
program, Sanchez plans to
lead an effort to get a measure passed in Olympia during the next legislative session that would make young
illegal immigrants eligible
for state financial aid.
He tried in 2009, but the
measure didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it past
committees controlled by
Democrats.
Sanchez said the amount
of money that the new allocation would increase is small

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compared to the overall pot.
Sanchez argued that
these students and their parents have contributed their
share to Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy.
They pay taxes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the
chief source of income for the
stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general budget. And
many of the students who
would benefit are children of
agricultural workers, who
help maintain one of the
stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief economic sectors.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at stake is giving
kids hope,â&#x20AC;? Sanchez said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Often times for any child
in poverty, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand what higher education
means or what it costs, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
especially true for undocumented students, especially
for their parents who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
have the slightest clue.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If kids grow up saying to
themselves, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to
college because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an illegal
alienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; . . . it becomes a selffulfilling prophecy.â&#x20AC;?
Students who are illegal
immigrants already qualify
for in-state tuition.
The state estimated in
2009 that making illegal
immigrants who are stu-

Student aid
Students who qualify for
the program cannot apply for
federal student aid, said U.S.
Department of Education
spokesman Justin Hamilton.
In 2011-2012, the state
needs-grant
pot
was
$266 million, according to
the Washington Student
Achievement Council.
The agency estimated
that its number would
increase to more than $300
million in the following year.
About 74,000 students
received the state needs
grant, but more than 31,000
who were eligible did not
receive funding in the 20112012 school year, the agency
reported.
Sen. Phyllis Gutierrez
Kenney, a Democrat from
Seattle, said there seems to
be more support in the Senate this year, which would be
a bigger hurdle to pass than
the lower chamber, if the current Democrat-Republican
split holds.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to see more kids
graduate from high school,â&#x20AC;?
Kenney said.

Dr. Gregory Fleischhauer, Dr. Ty Chun and Dr. Thomas Wixted
are pleased to announce
the newest member of

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races Sunday in Olympia.

Volunteer Hospice plans
6-week education series
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PORT ANGELES —
Volunteer
Hospice
of
Clallam County will offer a
six-week Community and
Volunteer Education Series
beginning Sept. 20 and ending Oct. 25.
The series will be from
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. each Thursday at Hospice House,
located behind the hospice
office at 540 E. Eighth St.
The program is free and
open to the public. Registration is required and can be

taken up to the day before
the series begins.
The series is for both
new volunteers and the
general public, said Marilyn
Nelsen, volunteer services
manager.
“It’s a requirement
for new volunteers,” she
said.
“It is also a community
service for people who have
an interest in hospice and
want to know more about it.”
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■ Oct. 25 — Stress
management, a session for
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County sheriff’s officials
are investigating the death
of a 36-year-old woman
whose body was found
floating in Medical Lake.
The body was found
floating
about 15 feet from
EVERETT — An Everthe
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at Waterfront
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about
9 a.m. Tuesday.
Tuesday morning in a
The
Spokane
County
crosswalk.
medical examiner will perFirefighters took the
60-year-old Everett woman form an autopsy to confirm
the woman’s identity and
to a hospital with injuries
to her side and knee. She is determine the cause of
death.
expected to recover.
The Associated Press
Police said it was a
slow-speed accident at
about 6 a.m. as the officer
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Saturday,
the scene and helped the
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woman until firefighters
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arrived.
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OLYMPIA — The state
Department of Ecology is
accepting public comment
on an update to a technical
document that evaluates
available data on fish consumption by Washington
residents.
Comments will be
accepted on the Fish Consumption Rates Technical
Support
Document
through Oct. 26.
The agency said it will
consider any comments it
receives before finalizing
the document in the late
fall.
Ecology is working to
accurately identify how
much fish residents eat so
that protective standards
may be set for water quality and in-water sediments.
Ecology distributed the
first draft of the technical
support document for public review in October.
After receiving several
hundred comments on the
first draft, Ecology revised
the technical support document.

The update:
■ Focuses on scientific
and technical issues, and
removes perceived regulatory decisions, including a
recommended range for
fish-consumption rates.
Decisions on how to use
the data will be part of the
formal public regulatory
process of revising the
state’s surface water-quality standards with human
health criteria, which will
include a fish-consumption
rate.
■ Adds more information about fish consumption and exposure to contamination faced by both
the general and recreational fishing population.
The second draft of the
Fish Consumption Rates
Technical Support Document is at www.ecy.wa.
gov/toxics/fish.html.
To submit comments,
mail them to Adrienne
Dorrah,
Washington
Department of Ecology,
Toxics Cleanup Program,
P.O. Box 47600, Olympia,
WA 98504-7600, or email
them to fishconsumption@
ecy.wa.gov.

SEQUIM — Barbara
Paschal will present a free
WOW! Working on Wellness
Forum titled “Living Room
Aerobics” at 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 12.
The forum will be at
Olympic Medical Park, 840
N. Fifth Ave. in Sequim.
Paschal will talk about
the “Five Most Important
Health Bank Accounts” and
how exercise is the key for
building and making these
accounts grow.
She will demonstrate
ways to exercise at home
and improve endurance,
strength and flexibility.
“You can improve your

health at any age,” Paschal
said.
Paschal is a retired
physical therapist with
more than 33 years of experience.
She has bachelor’s
degrees in psychology and
physical therapy.
WOW! Working on Wellness is a health education
program of the Dungeness
Valley Health & Wellness
Clinic, Sequim’s free clinic.
The Basic Urgent Care
Clinic is open to patients
Mondays and Thursdays
beginning at 5 p.m.
Those interested in supporting the clinic can phone
360-582-0218.

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Whale-spine
sculpture set
to be installed
PORT ANGELES — A
16-foot-long, 20,000-pound
polished concrete replica of
a whale vertebrae is
expected to be installed at
Valley Creek Estuary Park
about 10:30 a.m. today.
The large artwork will
be moved into place with
trucks, cranes and loaders,
said Barb Frederick, executive director of the Port
Angeles Downtown Association.
An anonymous donor
paid for the $65,000 addition to the Art on the Town
collection of outdoor sculptures that was commissioned from artist Alex
Anderson, owner of Alex
Anderson Concrete in Port
Angeles.
Charles Smith, chairman of the Art on the Town
Committee, said the
12-foot-tall, 4-foot thick
sculpture “fits with the
Northwest and the marine
theme we have in this community.”
The sculpture, which
has a 4.5-foot-wide hole in
the middle through which
children can climb as well
as a bench, will be placed
near the historical marker
facing Front Street on the
Port Angeles waterfront.

day on Chimacum Road
near state Highway 19
when the truck crossed the
intersection, went off the
road and struck a stop
sign, fire hydrant and
house, according to State
Patrol reports.
Russ suffered injuries to
the head, shoulders and
knees, and was flown to
Harborview via helicopter.
Russ was not wearing a
seat belt, State Patrol
Trooper Mark Hodgson
said earlier.

Storyteller slated
PORT TOWNSEND —
Seattle storyteller Auntmama, aka Mary Anne
Moorman, will appear as
part of the September First
Friday Storynight at Better
Living through Coffee, 100
Tyler St.
In addition, Leif Hansen, an improvisational
artist known as the “master of play,” will serve as
guest host and storyteller.
Storynight’s usual host,
Brian Rohr, is on a storytelling tour in Illinois.
Admission to the gathering from 7 p.m. until
9 p.m. Friday is $10,
though no one will be
turned away for lack of
that sum.
As always on Storynight, the evening will
include an open-mic section
so attendees can share
their own stories.
The only rules are it
must obviously be a story,
and no reading; everything
must be shared in the ways
of the oral tradition.
To learn more about
Auntmama and her stories,
visit www.auntmama.com/
bio.
For details on First Friday Storynight, phone 360531-2535 or visit www.
brianrohr.com.
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videos and other items that were part of a yard sale being held on Oak Street in
downtown Port Angeles on Monday.

PORT ANGELES —
Clallam County has authorized the temporary closures
of six county roads at their
intersections with U.S. Highway 101 for the state Department of Transportation’s
$90 million highway widening project between Port
Angeles and Sequim starting next year.
The temporary closures
along a 3.5-mile stretch
between Kitchen-Dick and
Shore roads will take place
next summer in sequential
order as the state widens the
highway to four lanes.
A 32-foot median will
separate two lanes of eastand westbound traffic and Higher grade
reduce the potential for
The longest of the clohead-on wrecks, state offi- sures will be a maximum
cials have said.
two-week shutdown of Sherburne Road to allow crews to
Six intersections
raise the level of the county
The three county com- road by 8 feet to align it with
missioners Tuesday unani- the new highway grade.
Closures of up to six days
mously approved the temporary closures of Shore, North are planned for Dryke and
Barr, Sherburne, Dryke, Kitchen-Dick roads.
Shore Road will be shut
Kitchen-Dick and Kirk
roads at their intersections down at the highway inter-

Death and Memorial Notice
NEIL AUSTIN
WELLS
April 17, 1949
August 22, 2012
Neil passed away from
a heart attack on August
22, 2012.
Neil was born in Seattle, Washington, attending
Port Angeles schools from
kindergarten through high
school.
He lived and worked a
short while away from his
hometown but soon realized there was no place
like home.
His jobs here included
boat-pulling for Walt Neveril, Payless, the U.S. Forest Service and Crown
Zellerbach, retiring from
the city of Port Angeles’
Road Department.
Neil loved being outdoors. He liked “feeling”
the weather and spent a
large portion of his life
experiencing it. He hunted
and fished local rivers,
lakes and oceans, traversing forests and mountains
his whole life. Many happy
trips were made to
Alaska, Colorado and
Wyoming with his son.
He appreciated the wilderness and all its glory

Neil Austin Wells
but also standing in his
cherished garden, taking
in the fragrances and
appreciating the breezes
and dappled sunlight.
At a young age, it was
apparent he had an
innate talent as a multifaceted artist. He saw beauty
in all things. Always humble, his works were given
as gifts of love or kept for
his own love of creation
and enjoyment.
Neil’s random acts of
kindnesses were kept
close to his heart, but
many people knew of or
benefited from his caring.
His honest, delighted

with the highway.
“We don’t expect all these
closures to happen simultaneously,” Commissioner Jim
McEntire said.
“They will be closely following one another in some
kind of a sequence so that
the contractor can mobilize
once and knock all these
intersections out. Then that’s
done and over with.”
The state Department of
Transportation has not
selected the contractor.
The contractor’s schedule
will determine the exact
dates of the closures, project
manager Steve Fuchs told
commissioners during an
Aug. 20 briefing.

laughter and smiles will
be missed. His candid
conversations will be
missed. He knew God,
and that knowledge gave
him great moments of
understanding and peace.
Neil was survived by
his son, Ethan Austin
Wells; sisters Jean Toliver,
Toni Webb and Kristi
(Arpad) Toth; and nieces
and nephews Justin (Danisha) Toliver and their
child Milo, Neil Chad (Carrie) Wells and their children, Hannah, Noah, Troy
Wells, Fatimah Rice and
Holly Critchfield, Heidi
Conyers and children
Jake and Baylee and son
Noah, Matt Toth, Molly
Toth and Mike (Julie) Toth.
Neil was preceded in
death by his mother, Ruth
Wells; and brother
Michael Allen Wells.
We will be having a
celebration of life on Saturday, September 8, from
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Sons of
Norway Hall, 131 West
Fifth Street, Port Angeles.
Contributions can be
made to Seattle Children’s
Hospital, www.seattle
childrens.org.
Comments are welcome online at www.
drennanford.com.

section for up to three days.
he longest of the
One-day closures were
authorized for North Barr
closures will be a
and Kirk roads.
maximum two“The actual dates, as we
get closer to the projects, will week shutdown of
be well-publicized,” Com- Sherburne Road to
missioner Mike Chapman
allow crews to raise
said.
County roads with no the level of the county
alternate exits, such as
South Barr and Pierson road by 8 feet to align
it with the new
roads, will not be closed.
Fuchs last month said highway grade.
crews will begin constructing a new bridge over
McDonald Creek this winter. a prospectus and local agency
agreement with TransportaSwitch both directions tion for a 130-foot pedestrian
underpass for Clallam TranOnce the new bridge is
sit passengers to cross the
finished, the state will switch
widened highway at the East
both directions of highway
Owl Creek bus stop near
traffic onto the new bridge,
demolish the existing bridge Kitchen-Dick Road.
Federal transportation
and build a second bridge for
funds
will account for
the new highway.
The two-year project is $415,200 of the $480,000
scheduled to be completed in project.
The remaining $64,800
October 2014, Fuchs said.
Once completed, left will come from the Clallam
turns onto the highway from Transit surface transportacounty roads will no longer tion program.
“We, the county, are simbe permitted.
Motorists will be required ply the agent here,” McEnto turn right and use one of tire said.
________
six dedicated U-turns to
achieve their intended direcReporter Rob Ollikainen can be
tion.
reached at 360-452-2345, ext.
In a related project, com- 5072, or at rollikainen@peninsula
missioners Tuesday approved dailynews.com.

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Judge ponders new trial in
police officer beating death
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPOKANE — A federal
judge is deciding whether
former Spokane Police Officer Karl F. Thompson should
receive a new trial in the
beating death of a suspect.
Judge Fred Van Sickle
heard arguments Friday
that Thompson should
receive a new trial because

prosecutors hid information
from the defense that could
have won his acquittal.
The Spokesman-Review
reported that several assistant U.S. attorneys disputed
the assertions, countering
that they had done everything required.
Thompson was convicted
in November of using excessive force and lying to inves-

tigators in a violent 2006
confrontation with Otto
Zehm, a mentally ill janitor
mistakenly identified as a
possible thief.
Zehm died two days
after being beaten, stungunned and hog-tied by
police in a Spokane convenience store.
Thompson remains free
during the appeal.

Death Notices
Willard Spencer
Oct. 5, 1933 — Sept. 2, 2012

Former Port Angeles resident Willard Spencer died
of renal failure in Seattle.
He was 78.
His obituary will be published later.
Services: Saturday at
10 a.m., celebration of life at
Bethany
Pentecostal
Church, 508 S. Francis St.,
Port Angeles. The Rev.
Omer Vigoren will officiate.
Internment will be at
Mount Tahoma National
Cemetery.
American Cremation
and Casket Alliance, Marysville, is in charge of arrangements.

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or as written by the PDN staff from information provided by survivors. These notices appear at a nominal cost according to the length of the obituary. Photos and ornamental insignia are welcome.
Call 360-452-8435 Monday through Friday for
information and assistance and to arrange publication.
A convenient form to guide you is available at
area mortuaries or by downloading at www.
peninsuladailynews.com under “Obituary Forms.”
■ Death Notices, in which summary information
about the deceased, including service information
and mortuary, appear once at no charge. No biographical or family information or photo is included.
A form for death notices appears at www.
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For further information, call 360-417-3527.

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Trick casting gets you off the hook
I HAVE ALWAYS been very
proud of my trick-casting ability.
I don’t think
it’s bragging to
Pat
say I once was
able to cast a
Neal
lure high into
the air and
have it land in
my shirt
pocket.
That is a
talent that
takes years of
practice.
I think it is
way past time
to have trick casting included as
an Olympic sport.
While casting may not have
the glamor and excitement of
gymnastics or beach volleyball, it
requires a special skill to hit a
target with a lure at a long distance out of a moving boat.
Trick casting should be
included in every angler’s bag of
tricks.

Darwin’s theory of evolution
tells us that fish are much more
intelligent than they once were.
After a long summer of heavy
fishing pressure, the fish have
been bombarded with every sort
of lure and presentation imaginable.
So forget about just throwing
a regular ham-and-egger cast
into a fishing hole, figuring that
the fish are still stupid enough to
bite.
The fish have probably
already seen your pathetic lure,
fly or bait enough times to know
what aisle of what store your
gear came from.
You will need some fancy casting to impress the fish if you
expect to catch anything.
You need some trick casting.
You might have to try looping
your lure over a tree limb and
letting it dangle for just an
instant before twitching your rod
at the precise angle that allows

the gear to drop into the water at
just the right spot.
This is called the “Suicide
Cast,” because if you fail to execute properly, you will lose everything on the tree limb.
There are strict rules in the
sport of trick casting.
Winners are determined by
the number of lures lost. Those
who lose the fewest lures “win.”
Unfortunately, the numbers of
lures lost are largely selfreported.
Remember this the next time
you hear someone brag how they
fished all day and didn’t lose any
gear.
It’s easy to test to see if fishermen are lying.
Their lips are moving.
Real trick casters don’t have
to lie, but they just might out of a
force of habit.
Done properly, the “Suicide
Cast” will not only amaze and
delight any witnesses who hap-

Peninsula Voices
most decisive decision in
our history.
The letter “Nov. 6 ElecVoters will decide to
tion” [Peninsula Voices,
continue
the progressiveAug. 29] is a overly clear
example of the wide chasm leftist direction toward the
democratic socialism of
between the liberal and
Europe or to halt this devoconservative political philutionary path for restoralosophies in the United
tion of our Declaration of
States.
Independence’s sacred
Because I lean toward
rights to life (inevitably
conservatism, the letterwriter’s alternate interpre- integrating natural equaltation of historical and cur- ity and inequality), liberty
and pursuit of happiness.
rent events was a rude
Essentially, we will vote
awakening about the
extremities of political atti- for personal and economic
liberty or submit to a cratude.
dle-to-the-grave, welfareHowever, his writings
state dependency with govdisplayed such definiteernment-mandated equalness, such rigidity, such
ity that smothers incentive
self-assuredness, that he
and sucks the fire and soul
left no room for polite disfrom life.
cussion.
Voters will choose
If his words were meant
to convert a conservative
between personal responsiinto becoming a liberal, his bility with its risks and
arguments instead only left rewards or Big Nanny’s
the opposition lying on the “protection” and “security.”
floor, bleeding to death.
Unforgivably, progresWhile it was shocking to sives have perverted the
read his words in print,
word “right” into entitlethey certainly caught my
ment, i.e., right to educaattention.
tion, family wage, health
Jim Thomasson, care, etc.
Port Angeles
Government big enough
to create rights is powerful
Key election
enough to destroy rights.
Unequivocally, no one
On Nov. 6, the American
electorate will make their
has a God-given right to

OUR

pen to be present, it will cause
the fish to attack like hungry
sharks.
The “Desperation Cast” is a
high arcing backhand, over-theshoulder maneuver that should
only be used after you have given
up hope of ever catching anything.
Be sure to give yourself plenty
of room before using this cast to
avoid hooking anxious onlookers
who are trying to copy your technique.
If the “Desperation Cast”
doesn’t work, you may need the
“Kamikaze Hurricane Cast” to
score.
This is a sideways presentation that almost tips the boat
over and hurls the lure with the
low-angle trajectory of a rifle
shot through tree limbs and
between logs with amazing
results.
A word of caution before using
this particular cast: The more

physical force you put into the
“Kamikaze Hurricane Cast,” the
greater the likelihood something
will go wrong.
If you snag yourself or others
while attempting the “Kamikaze
Hurricane,” it will guarantee a
trip to the emergency room.
You could be through fishing.
That’s when you have to make
the trickiest cast there is: “The
Last Cast.”
The great thing about “The
Last Cast” is you can always
make another one.
I’ve seen guys stand for years
making “The Last Cast.”
With any luck at all, no cast is
really your last.

_______
Pat Neal is a fishing guide
and “wilderness gossip
columnist.” Neal can be reached
at 360-683-9867 or email at
patnealwildlife@yahoo.com.
His column appears here every
Wednesday.

Social Security
As we vote in November,
let us remember:
Social Security and
Medicare are too big to fail.
We should bail them out
and make them solvent
like we did the banks.
Wars are not sustainable.
Let us finance warfare
with increased taxes instead
of borrowed money and see
how long we continue these
undeclared conflicts.
Rich Lamkin,
Sequim

Driving ages
what another is forced to
provide.
When government
becomes grantor of rights,
it produces unnatural
inequality of the privileged
and those forced to serve
the privileged, until disincentive destroys their will

dependency; 46 percent of
households pay no federal
income tax.
When nearly half of the
population dependent on
government assistance
(voting for representatives
to increase their privileges)
combines with environmen-

If the figures published
on the front page of Sunday’s PDN [“What Age is
Too Old to Drive?” Sept. 2]
were used to de-license
over-80 drivers, the same
should happen to the 20-29
group.
Walter Annas,
Sequim

Making one’s sun to eliminate dry spells
JUST BEHIND US, the driest August on record in Seattle.
I have to admit, my legs had
been waiting for some kind of
record-based justification to
show themselves. Dancing and
bicycling has paid off.
My collection of summer
dresses that hang in my closet
10 months out of the year have
been extremely happy.
Between Aug. 15 and Sept.
15, I’ll change clothes three
times a day just to be sure I get
to wear all my favorite flimsies
before the drizzle returns.
“A woman can just ache for a
chance to wear dresses as beautiful as these,” I said to Larry,
holding up a halter neck dress
bordered with a swirl of leaves
near the neckline.
He shook his head and smiled,
knowing not to object.
Every woman needs a fashion
fix of one kind or another, and a
good man knows it’s best just to
let her be when the craving
strikes.
Because of her place in my

FROM A WRITER’S
NOTEBOOK
dress-thoughts
today, I think of
Sanelli
my friend
Amira. It was
four months
ago when she
met a man on
Match.com.
Last month,
she moved in to
his place.
Last week,
she married
him!! (Double
exclamation
points? That’s how shocked I was.)
Her marriage celebration is
tonight, and I’m wearing a dress
practically up to here, essentially
because she dared me to and I’d
agreed because I thought wearing a dress she picked out might
smooth things over between us.
I have always tried to be
supportive to my friend’s
marriage-opinions, even if I

Mary Lou

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can’t keep from giving mine.
Essentially, I’m wearing the
too-young-for-me dress because I
don’t want her to think I disapprove of her decisions in any
major way, beginning with hemlines.
“I’ll fix you up,” she said, “it’ll
be fun.”
It was fun.
Whether it was just the fact
that we’d come together for the
sole purpose of my friend kneeling on her bed and coaxing me
into one dress after another, or
just the sound of our voices
cracking one joke about my body
or hers, I can’t say.
But I loved it, and I would
have worn a babushka if she’d
told me to.
Thanks to the dry spell, I’ve
grown more comfortable exposing
skin.
When everyone around you
wears less, it casts a spell.
After awhile, you don’t even
stare at that bum flapping from
beneath fabric more bikini bottom than shorts.

Legs are no longer foreignlooking.
Finally, there was one dress
that made me say, “I could maybe
wear this one.”
Gratefully, I had to hold my
breath while she zipped me up,
and that effort alone totally
restored us to not avoiding each
other’s eyes.
Once I had the dress on, I
don’t think she or anyone could
have pried it off me without truly
suffering.
“You look amazing!” Amira
cried.
Of course she’s from Argentina, shiny black pony tail
between gold hoop earrings, the
kind of woman who, no matter
how dark and exotically Italian I
may fool myself into believing I
am, women like her always make
me feel 100 percent American,
corny in comparison, pale no
matter what color I wear.
“Larry should see me now,” I
said. “When I think of all the
times I said women over 40 have
no business dressing this way.

“When you live where Lutherans set the fashion standard:
Excuse me, but are those your
legs showing? Put on your chinos
like a good girl!”
Our faces were open, our
friendship genuine.
I remember thinking that we
made our own sunshine, radiant
and bright.
If the new husband doesn’t
work out, we’ll make it through.

________
Mary Lou Sanelli, writer,
poet and performer, divides her
time between Port Townsend and
Seattle.
She can be emailed via her
website, www.marylousanelli.com.
Her column appears on the
first Wednesday of each month.
The next installment will appear
Oct. 3.
Mary Lou will read from several of her PDN columns at
Nash’s Farm Store anniversary
celebration,4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way, Sequim, on Sept. 21 at
6:30 p.m.

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TAKEN

FOR A RIDE

Lissy Andrews and her horse, Miles, left, and Joan Sommantico
with her horse, Xena, ride along the Larry Scott Memorial Trail
against a backdrop of the Port Townsend Paper Corp. mill
Monday in Port Townsend. The women said the Labor Day
holiday was a good excuse to ride into town.

Salal harvest permits
to go on sale today
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

OLYMPIA — Permit
sales for the harvest of salal
in Olympic National Forest
will begin today.
Salal is a shrub commonly used in the floral
industry.
Permits will be issued
from the Forks, Quinault
and Quilcene Forest Service
offices during business
hours on the following
dates: today, Nov. 7, Jan. 9
and March 6.
A total of 100 permits
will be issued, with a maximum of 15 permits for each
harvest unit.
Fifty permits will be
offered from Quilcene for
harvest areas located within
Mason County and the east
side of Clallam and Jefferson counties.
Twenty-five permits will
be offered from Forks for the
west side of Clallam County.
Twenty-five permits will
be offered from Lake
Quinault for harvest areas
within Grays Harbor
County and the west side of

valid U.S. photo
identification
will be required
at the time of
purchase, and those
buying the permits
must be at least 18
years of age.

A

Jefferson County.
A lottery system will be
used if the demand for permits exceeds the supply.
Each permit will cost
$150 and can be used for up
to two months.
A valid U.S. photo identification will be required at
the time of purchase, and
those buying the permits
must be at least 18 years of
age.
Cash or checks will be
accepted, but no credit cards
or debit cards.
The Forks office is at 437
Tillicum Lane, the Quilcene
office is at 295142 U.S.
Highway 101, and the

Quinault office is at 353 S.
Shore Road.
In an effort to maintain a
sustainable amount of salal
for future harvests, reduce
confusion about boundary
areas and improve public
safety, several changes were
introduced to the salal permit program in the past
year.
At least one piece of
high-visibility clothing is
recommended while harvesting salal.
Permit holders will be
limited to no more than 200
hands per day in possession.
Harvest unit boundaries
are now clearly defined by
roads or recognizable land
features, and a map of the
harvest areas will be distributed with the sale of
each permit.
For additional information about salal permit
sales, phone Chris Dowling
at 360-956-2272.
For general information
about Olympic National
Forest, visit www.fs.fed.us/
r6/olympic.

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B
Golf

Enjoying
holiday
on great
course
NORTHERN MASON
COUNTY is beautiful this time of
year. I learned this after some time
at Lake Cushman Golf Course and a
night camping at the lake resort
itself in Hoodsport over the Labor
Day weekend.
Most of my
trips through
Michael
Mason County
Carman
are of the passing-through
variety, hoping
to make my way
as quickly as I
can to Portland
or other exciting
points south.
When it
rains, which is
often, the Mason
County spotted
through a car
windshield
seems to be particularly dreary and
moss-covered.
This is, of course, the same area
where Seattle TV news stations send
“intrepid” reporters to get prime footage of salmon swimming over
flooded roadways.
Imagine my confusion upon hearing various friends and acquaintances sing the praises of “Cushman”
over the years.
I’d never turned off of U.S. Highway 101 until Sunday morning.
I dropped off a crockpot full of biscuits and gravy at the campsite —
my penance for arriving late after
watching 17 hours of college football
on Saturday.
The campsite was quiet at 9 a.m.,
so I headed over to the course to play
nine holes before lunch.
I enjoyed a fog-shrouded round
(fog staying up in the foothills and
away from the course), lost no balls
and hit no houses along the course,
both small victories that make a bad
scoring round feel positive.
Despite being up in the foothills
of the Olympics, the nine-hole Lake
Cushman course is relatively flat
(two gradual slopes on two holes)
and an easy walk.
The course has a collection of old
tree stumps incorporated into the
layout, which reminded me of Port
Ludlow Golf Club.
Having been cut out of the surrounding forest, the course is treelined and there are homes on most
holes but it never plays claustrophobic.
There’s plenty of room for errant
shots of all makes and models.
My favorite hole was the wide
open and straight 479-yard par-5 No.
8, which should yield eagle/birdie
opportunities even for high handicappers (I missed my birdie shot).
After my round, the fog lifted and
my friends and I were able to partake of a warm, sunny day on the
lake.
For the value ($14 for nine holes
on the weekend), sterling course conditions and ease of use, I would recommend the course for any latesummer Lake Cushman vacation.

Three events in PT
Port Townsend Golf Club will
hold a trio of events this month with
the first — the 16th annual Port
Townsend Elks Scholarship Golf
Tournament — set for Saturday.
This tourney will provide scholarships for high school graduates.
A 10 a.m. shotgun start will kickoff the two-person best-ball event.
There will be gross and net prizes
and individual champions for Elks
and non-members.
Green fees are $40 per player,
plus $5 green fees for non-members.
Port Townsend will also host a
Team Port Townsend Golf Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 22.
This tourney will raise money to
support Blue Heron Middle School
sports.
Sports are back this year at Blue
Heron after community fundraising
rallied to plug a budget gap.
Finally, Port Townsend Sunrise
Rotary’s annual Night Time Glow
Ball Golf Tournament will be held on
Saturday, Sept. 29.
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TO

CARMAN/B3

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

San Diego State’s Derek Largent (50) and Nat Berhe, left, try to bring down Washington’s Bishop Sankey in the
first half of Saturday’s game in Seattle. Sankey will get the bulk of the carries at LSU this weekend after top
running back Jesse Callier went down with a season-ending injury.

Running game takes hit
UW loses two more
to season-ending injury
BY TIM BOOTH
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE — Washington
was already facing a difficult
task traveling to No. 3 LSU on
Saturday.
Now the
ALSO . . .
Huskies will
■ Four Pacbe doing it
12 teams
without
a
face ranked
starting offenteams this
sive lineman
week/B4
and a co-starting running
back.
Huskies coach Steve Sarkisian said running back Jesse
Callier will miss the rest of the
season after suffering a torn

anterior cruciate ligament in his
right knee in last Saturday’s
opener against San Diego State.
He wasn’t the only significant
loss for the Huskies as starting
right tackle Ben Riva was lost for
an undetermined amount of time
with a fractured forearm.
Already a massive concern
before the season started, the
Huskies will head to Baton
Rouge with potentially three
sophomores starting on the
offensive line and a grand total of
53 total carries among the four
running backs they’re likely to
use.
The bulk of the carries will
fall on sophomore Bishop San-

their names because I can’t
remember all of them but I know
their numbers,” Sarkisian said of
the Tigers’ defensive line.
key, who had
“It’s 9 and 18 and 77 and 90
a career-high
and 99 and 89 and 49, and they
22 carries
are good. That’s no secret.”
against the
The injury to Callier is signifiAztecs, while
cant in two ways.
the offensive
Washington loses its most
line shuffle
experienced running back, but
will see soph- Next Game also a complement to Sankey.
omore James
Callier’s strength was getting
Atoe likely Saturday
the ball on the perimeter and
vs.
LSU
get his first
running in the open field, while
career start at Baton Rouge
Sankey has shown to be a capaTime:
4
p.m.
against
ble runner between the tackles.
LSU’s mas- On TV: ESPN
It also means Callier misses
sive and talout on his chance to shine after
ented defenthe junior spent his first two seasive line.
sons stuck behind Chris Polk, the
Guard Erik Kohler, who No. 2 all-time rusher in Washingmissed most of fall camp with a ton history.
knee injury, will move to right
Sarkisian said Callier will
tackle.
redshirt this season.
Good luck.
“I don’t want to say any of
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Dawgs

Void at tight end for Hawks?
Winslow let
go just before
season opener
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON — The Seattle
Seahawks entered preparations
for their regular season opener
looking to fill a sudden void at
tight end.
The surprising
release of
Kellen Winslow on Satu r d a y
leaves Seat- First Game
tle adapting Sunday
to the loss of vs. Cardinals
a
proven at Arizona
pass catching option Time: 1:25 p.m.
at a position On TV: Ch. 13
where they
struggled to
find production a season ago.
Seahawks tight ends combined to catch just 44 passes in
2011.
Winslow had caught at least
66 in five of his last six seasons.
The Seahawks acquired
Winslow in a trade with Tampa
Bay in May, and he appeared
set to become a big contributor.
Seattle had used Winslow all
over the field throughout training camp, lining him up anywhere from an inline position to
split out wide.
“I think we still have that
capability to be able to do that,”

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson (3) hands off to tight end Anthony McCoy in the
second half against the Denver on Aug. 18 in Denver. McCoy will be asked to do
more after Kellen Winslow as cut from the team.
offensive coordinator Darrell
Bevell said. “You can really put
any of those guys out there —
obviously some would be better
than others — but really all of
our guys know those positions.”
Winslow had a base salary of
$3.3 million for the 2012 season,
which would have been fully
guaranteed if he was on the
opening day roster.
The financial commitment
may have been a determining

factor in letting Winslow go.
In Winslow’s place, Zach
Miller, Anthony McCoy and
newly signed Evan Moore will
have to fill the void.
Moore signed with the
Seahawks on Sunday after
being released Friday by Cleveland.
Miller was signed to a lucrative five-year, $34 million deal
last year.
He was limited to just 25

catches in 2011, frequently serving as an extra blocker for a
patchwork offensive line.
More will be asked from the
group as the Seahawks look to
take another step and challenge
for a division title.
“We’re going to move forward.
We’ve got a good tight end crew
and I’m excited about this season,” Miller said.
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(IL).
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS_Purchased the contract of RHP Shelby Miller from Memphis (PCL).
Recalled INF Ryan Jackson and OF Adron
Chambers from Memphis.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS_Recalled OF
Corey Brown from Syracuse (IL). Activated
RHP Chien-Ming Wang from the 15-day DL.
American Association
LINCOLN SALTDOGS_Traded INF David
Espinosa to York for a player to be named.

cer team beat host North Idaho
College by two goals in the North
Idaho tournament last weekend.
The Pirates outshot North
Idaho 12-6 and had goals by
Erick Urzua at the 50-minute
mark, and two by Alex Martinez,
one at 81 minutes and the other
at 86 minutes.
Assists came from Richard
Gallarde, Jake Forrester and
Daniel Gonzalez.
North Idaho had its goal on a

penalty kick at 76 minutes.
“It was great to fight for a full
90 minutes,” Peninsula coach
Andrew Chapman said.
“Especially after such a bad
game [Saturday, a 2-1 loss to
Northwest College of Wyoming].
We were able to rest a lot of players and play everybody [Sunday].”
The Pirates next host South
Puget Sound today at 4 p.m.
Peninsula Daily News

COLLEGE

Briefly . . .
In many events, Bodystrong
students had to square-off
against each other for first and
second place.
A team pattern event was
held with five teams entering the
event.
HOQUIAM — Sequim’s
Troy Phipps headed and
Bodystrong Taekwon-do Academy
coached the team of five from
dominated the first Grays HarBodystrong, which won this
bor martial arts tournament.
event by a huge margin.
Numbers were slightly less
Bodystrong’s Linda Allen led
than normal for a tournament
the area group with three gold
held in the Pacific Northwest,
medals.
however Bodystrong made a
Holly Gauthun earned two
great showing.

Sequim team
wins martial
arts tourney

gold and a silver while Troy
Phipps and Kyah Fukunaga had
one gold, two silver and a bronze
each.
Other Bodystrong medal winners were Trenton Phipps, Kyle
Morton and Logan Phipps with
one gold, one silver and one
bronze each; and Katrina
Straight with a gold and two
bronze medals.

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; So, Victoria Azarenka, what went
through your mind as your
high-tension, high-quality
U.S. Open quarterfinal victory over defending champion Sam Stosur stretched
into a third-set tiebreaker?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to know
what I kept telling myself,â&#x20AC;?
Azarenka
deadpanned
Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would have to
beep that, I think.â&#x20AC;?
She went on to offer a
cleaned-up version of what
her thoughts had been â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a chickenâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
while cobbling together a
6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5) rain-interrupted win that eliminated
Stosur, put the top-seeded
Azarenka in her first semifinal at Flushing Meadows
and assured her of retaining the No. 1 ranking no
matter what happens the
rest of this week.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Definitely, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want
to stop. I really want it bad,â&#x20AC;?
Azarenka said about the
prospect of adding a second
Grand Slam trophy to the
one she earned in January
at the Australian Open.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to do absolutely everything I have,

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Victoria Azarenka returns a shot to Samantha Stosur in the quarterfinals
of the 2012 U.S. Open on Tuesday in New York.

U.S. Open
you know, to give it all here.â&#x20AC;?
As of 7 p.m., thanks to
off-and-on showers, she was
the only player who got to
enjoy a singles victory at

the U.S. Open on Tuesday.
The other womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarterfinal on the schedule was
suspended in progress
because of rain, and fourtime major champion Maria
Sharapova will be trailing
2007 Wimbledon runner-up
Marion Bartoli 4-0 when

they resume Wednesday.
Sharapova got a bit of a
reprieve from the weather
during her previous match:
She was down 2-0 in the
third set against Nadia
Petrova when a rain delay
of 75 minutes came: After
the break, Sharapova took

five of the next six games.
Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get at least 15 hours
to contemplate her deficit
against Bartoli, who lost all
eight sets they had played
before Tuesday.
They were allowed to
head to their hotels before 6
p.m., because the tournament wanted to free up
Arthur Ashe Stadium for
the night session and what
was supposed to be the
main event: 2003 U.S. Open
champion Andy Roddickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
bid to postpone retirement
yet again by beating 2009
champ Juan Martin del
Potro in the fourth round.
Roddick surprisingly
announced last week, on his
30th birthday, that this
tournament would be the
last of his career.
Since then, he picked up
two victories over players
ranked 43rd and 59th, but
the No. 7-seeded del Potro
figured to provide more of a
challenge.
Del Potro is the only
man other than Roger
Federer, Rafael Nadal or
Novak Djokovic to win any
of the last 30 Grand Slam
titles.
Nadal has been sidelined

since his second-round loss
at Wimbledon, and is
expected to miss at least
another two months, with a
partially torn patella tendon in his left knee.
Federer is already into
the quarterfinals at this
U.S. Open; defending champion Djokovicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourthround match against No. 18
Stanislas Wawrinka was
among those on hold Tuesday because of the downpours.
They had yet to play a
point by 7 p.m., nor had No.
8 Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia and No. 19 Philipp
Kohlschreiber of Germany
in their match.
No. 4 David Ferrer of
Spain was leading No. 13
Richard Gasquet of France
7-5, 7-6 (2), 4-3 when they
were halted, with hopes of
resuming.
All of which meant that
the only real action for
much of the day was Azarenka vs. Stosur.
Amazingly, as accomplished as Stosur is, she
never had taken so much as
a set off Azarenka in six
previous tour meetings.

Carman: Tourney for critters set for Sept. 21
CONTINUED FROM B1
For details on all these
events, phone the course at
360-385-4547.

SkyRidge tourney
SkyRidge Golf Course in
Sequim will say goodbye to
summer with a three-person scramble on Saturday,
Sept. 15.
The event has a 9:30
a.m. shotgun start and is
$30 per player ($90 per
team).
A honey pot is an extra
$20 per player.
Lunch will be served
after the round.

Three drives from each
player must be used during
play.
There will be gross and
net prizes, team KPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and
team long putt.
For more information,
phone 360-683-3673.

Humane Society event
The Olympic Peninsula
Humane Society will hold
its annual Claws and Paws
Golf Tournament at Cedars
at Dungeness Golf Course
in Sequim on Friday, Sept.
21.
Proceeds from the tournament go toward the
nearly 2,000 animals that

come to the shelter each
year.
Registration for the twoperson scramble tournament starts at 7 a.m. with
an 8 a.m. shotgun start.
Cost is $100 per player,
which includes golf, cart,
range balls, tee prizes, long
drive, KPs, raffle tickets
and a lunch ticket.
A prize field of $1,150
will be available based on a
full field of 100 players.
Koenig Chevrolet/
Subaru will feature a car
for a hole-in-one.
There is an additional
$20,000 prize to be split
between player and the
Humane Society for a hole-

in-one.
Mulligans will be available for purchase at time of
registration.
Guest tickets for luncheon by itself are available for $17.
For more information,
call Garrett Smithson of
Dungeness at 360-4772718; Bill Dole, tournament
chair, at 360-452-5983 or
360-912-1824; Donna Halsaver at 360-683-3994; or
Kandace Pierce at 360-4612810.

Garcia, Peter Hanson, Martin Kaymer, Paul Lawrie,
Graeme McDowell, Rory
McIlroy, Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose and Lee
Westwood earned automatic spots on the European team.
Ryder Cup rounds will
begin Sept. 28 at Medinah
Country Club in Illinois.
The European team is
the defending champion,
and has won four of the
last five contests.

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Golf columnist Michael Carman
can be reached at 360-417-3527
or pdngolf@gmail.com.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to find out one of the biggest concerns
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in a hurry,â&#x20AC;? Sarkisian said.
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more patience running the seasons.
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Washington was held
come in time, getting the under 100 yards twice last

year in losses to USC and
Oregon.
Sankey finished with 66
yards and averaged just 3.0
yards per carry against the
Aztecs.
Last year, Polk averaged
more than 5 yards per rush.
Sarkisian said he felt that
Sankey ran cautiously following a third-quarter fumble inside the SDSU
10-yard-line.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just tried to forget
about it and kept on with

the game,â&#x20AC;? Sankey said.
Sarkisian didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it
that way and has stressed
to Sankey that the Huskies
need his ability to run
inside if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re to have success against the LSU
defense.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to take
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because he has big play
potential, but his big play
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redshirt after being granted
a medical redshirt for his
injury last year.
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end of his career, applying
for a sixth season and all of
that,â&#x20AC;? Sarkisian said.
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through all of this before
you can cross that bridge, so
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Additionally, Sarkisian
said that defensive end
Hauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oli Jamora will also
miss the rest of the season
after knee surgery last
week revealed a second
ACL tear.
Jamora missed the final
eight games of last season
after tearing the ligament
and was injured during the
first week of fall camp.

PHOENIX â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Pac-12
had a long opening week,
stretching from four games
Thursday night to Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
frenetic game with Toledo
that went into the wee hours
of Sunday morning.
There were a couple of
surprising losses, some
tougher-than-expected wins,
but mostly the week was
filled with lopsided victories
against overmatched opponents.
This week figures to get a
lot tougher for the conference with ranked teams like
Wisconsin, Nebraska and
Oklahoma State on the
schedule.
The most daunting game
would go to Washington.
Coming off a win against
San Diego State, the Huskies get a huge test in the
bayou when they face No. 3
LSU on Saturday.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are a very good
football team,â&#x20AC;? Washington
coach Steve Sarkisian said.
Oregon State is facing a
pretty good one, too.
The Beavers had their
game against Nicholls State
postponed due to Hurricane
Isaac, giving them extra
time to prepare for No. 13
Wisconsin.
They may need it.
Oregon State was overrun 35-0 in Madison last
year and this season the
Badgers are the favorites to
win a third straight Big Ten
title behind Heisman hopeful Montee Ball and quarterback Danny Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, a
transfer from Maryland.
The Beavers do get to

face Wisconsin at home this
time and are hoping the fans
in Corvallis will give them a
boost.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as big a non-conference game as Oregon State
has hosted,â&#x20AC;? Oregon State
coach Mike Riley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awesome. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going
to be a great atmosphere
here.â&#x20AC;?
UCLA faces a big jump in
competition from one week
to the next.
The Bruins started their
inaugural season under
coach Jim Mora impressively, rolling over Rice
49-24 after Johnathan
Franklin ran for 214 yards
and three touchdowns.
Week 2 gets a whole lot
tougher for UCLA: No. 16
Nebraska.
The Cornhuskers appear
to be back among the
nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite and are coming
off a 49-20 rout over Southern Mississippi.
Nebraska had 632 yards
of total offense, most since
coach Bo Pelini took over in
2008, and Taylor Martinez
threw for 354 yards with
five touchdowns against the
Golden Eagles, giving UCLA
plenty to think about before
its second game.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a nationally
ranked team that comes off
an impressive win, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
got a lot depth, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very
talented and very wellcoached,â&#x20AC;? Mora said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to
play our best to beat them.â&#x20AC;?
Arizona also is facing a
big step up in competition
after barely getting past a
smaller-conference program

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Washington quarterback Keith Price runs against San Diego State in Seattle on Saturday. Price
hopes to find some running room against LSU this weekend.
in coach Rich Rodriguezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
debut.
In a game that appeared
to be stuck on fast-forward,
the Wildcats and Rockets
combined for an astounding
182 plays while playing well
into Sunday morning.
The Wildcats had plenty
of mistakes and breakdowns
in that game and will need
to get better quick; up next
is No. 18 Oklahoma State.
The Cowboys have
beaten Arizona each of the
past two seasons and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
give the Wildcats much
game film to look at from
their opener, pulling most of
their starters after the first

period of an 84-0 win over
Savannah State.
Oklahoma State showed
some mercy with the overmatched Tigers and still had
their most lopsided victory
since 1916.
Yeah, that will get your
attention.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their last game, they
could have scored 184 by
halftime if they had left
their starters in, and their
backups are pretty good,
too,â&#x20AC;? Rodriguez said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big challenge and
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to play
well to have a chance in this
game, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an opportunity to see where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at.â&#x20AC;?

Washington was already
going to have a tough time
playing the Tigers on the
road.
It will be even more difficult after running back
Jesse Callier tore the ACL in
his right knee against San
Diego State and right tackle
Ben Riva broke his forearm.
The good news for the
Huskies is that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
played LSU close before.
In 2009, Sarkisian took
over a team that had lost its
previous 14 games and was
facing the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11thranked team.
Despite some pre-game
jitters, the Huskies held